The memory of God should be treasured in our hearts like the precious pearl mentioned in the Holy Gospel. Our life's goal should be to nurture and contemplate God always within, and never let it depart, for this steadfastness will drive demons away from us. - Paraphrased from St. Philotheus of Sinai Writings from the Philokalia: On Prayer of the Heart,Translated from the Russian by E. Kadloubovksy and G.E.H. Palmer, Faber and Faber, London, Boston, 1992 printing.

My parents were able to see my aunt (she is my dad's younger sister, about early- to mid-fifties) the day before yesterday. Apparently, she was pretty non-responsive and wouldn't look at people if they talked to her. But when my dad came in and told her that it was him, she looked for him and whispered that she wanted to be helped up in bed. My dad talked to her about Christ and asked if she wanted to have Him as her Lord. She said yes.

She was intubated yesterday, her skin is very yellow, and she is mostly unresponsive at this point, but not in a coma.

Prognosis is bad without a liver transplant. Given her past history of drinking and smoking a lot, chances of that are extremely low.

Thank you for your prayers.

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Happy shall he be, that shall take and dash thy little ones against the rock. Alleluia.

Hear us, Almighty and most merciful God and Saviour; extend thy accustomed goodness to this thy servant Myna who is grieved with sickness. Sanctify, we beseech thee, this thy fatherly correction to her; that the sense of her weakness may add strength to her faith, and seriousness to her repentance: That, if it shall be thy good pleasure to restore her to her former health, she may lead the residue of her life in thy fear, and to thy glory: or else, give her grace so to take thy visitation, that, after this painful life ended, she may dwell with thee in life everlasting; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

The term planet earth is an innovation which has arisen in recent centuries with the error of heliocentrism.

If one wants to confess a pure doctrine of Orthodoxy, they should be careful not to refer to the earth as a planet, unlike the current Pope as well as Patriarch Kirill and Patriarch Bartholomew, who regularly speak in error when they refer to our planet earth.

The memory of God should be treasured in our hearts like the precious pearl mentioned in the Holy Gospel. Our life's goal should be to nurture and contemplate God always within, and never let it depart, for this steadfastness will drive demons away from us. - Paraphrased from St. Philotheus of Sinai Writings from the Philokalia: On Prayer of the Heart,Translated from the Russian by E. Kadloubovksy and G.E.H. Palmer, Faber and Faber, London, Boston, 1992 printing.